Former Massachusetts Governor and two-time presidential candidate Mitt Romney (l.) and five-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield stare down during their weigh-in before their boxing match in Holladay, Utah May 14. The two will box on Friday to benefit the medical charity CharityVision.

OK, it’s a benefit for Charity Vision, which fights blindness in developing countries. Mr. Romney decided to do the event after visiting India and seeing the need first hand, which he wrote about. One of Romney’s sons, Josh, is president of Charity Vision and hopes the boxing match with Holyfield will raise $1 million.

"You've heard my critics say that I'm out of touch. That I'm stiff. That I just don't relate to people," Romney says in a promotional video. "For years I've been listening to garbage like that. And I've decided to fight back."

At the White House briefing on Friday, spokesman Eric Schultz was asked if President Obama had any advice for Holyfield, but he said he hadn’t discussed the match with the president. “I had no idea that was happening. So I was pretty dumbfounded by the imagery,” Mr. Schultz said to laughter. (Thank you Jared Rizzi of Sirius XM Radio for asking the question, adding some levity to a slow news day.)

Clearly, Romney has given the match some thought. Boxing fans might recall that Mike Tyson once took a bite out of Holyfield’s ear during a match, and Romney says he doesn’t plan to duplicate that move.

“I’m staying far away from his ears,” Romney told The New York Times. “I don’t for a moment want for him to confuse me with anyone from his past.”

Romney says he will enter in a tuxedo, and then change into red silk shorts and a robe with a hood. Word is that Romney’s physique looks pretty good for a man in his late 60s, but he sounds reluctant to show the world his legs.

“I was affectionately known as Bird Legs during high school. I’m afraid the bird legs will be unveiled one more time,” Romney told the Times.

So it’s not Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, but it’s something. And what might Romney use for entrance music? His response: “I Will Survive.”